Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Things I will miss

It seems crazy to think that I only have about two more months in Laos! I am happy to be going home but also sad to say goodbye to this beautiful place. Here are my top ten things I will miss:

1. ARDA Skills.
My students, the staff, sewing class, dinner at skills, bible studies, English class, puppy, the Lor's. All of it I will miss so much.






2. Green Mangos
Green mangoes are my favorite snack. They are unripe and sometimes they can be sweet and sometimes sour. You dip them in jeo which is sauce and the sauce to the left is chili with sugar ( MSG too but I try to not admit that I eat it) and to the right is 'nam pha' which means fish water but it has squid juice, red peppers and other spices. Sounds kinda gross but it's actually good. At ARDA we have a mango tree so in April we had mangoes almost every day! The sad thing is there are no green mangoes in America so I will miss them quite a lot.




3. Jeo.
These are my two favorite foods in Laos. Jeo means sauce in Lao. To the left is eggplant and to the right is tomato. You dip these in sticky rice. We tend to have jeo everyday or maybe three times a week. There are many other types of jeo too but these are my favorite. I have even tried frog jeo and cricket jeo!




4. Kinley, Rachel, Crystal.
The girls that have become my family here. I will miss each one dearly.




5. Motorbike
I have actually gotten to enjoy going on my motorbike, though at first I was scared now it is nice to have freedom and explore the streets of Vientiane.



6. Nita students.
So cute and sometimes naughty I have enjoyed spending time with them and now that it's coming to the end I know that I will miss them. They keep asking me lately " Can I come back home with you?" It's so cute and breaks my heart.


7. MCC Staff.
Working and spending time with them has been so fun. I will miss staff meetings and all the time that I have gotten to spend time with them.



8. Host family
 All my cousins and aunts and uncles and especially Patty.



9. Vientiane/ all I have visited
I will miss the great city of Vientiane and all of Laos and it's beautiful countryside.





10.Friends
I have had the pleasure of meeting lots of friends in Laos and I will miss them quite a lot.





I read this quote that was talking about leaving a place and that it's true you that you will miss that place but you will also miss what you were doing and who you spent it with but you will also miss who you were at this time because another time like this will never happen again and the time you spend there is now a part of you. I have been thinking about this lately and finding it true that this is the only time in my life where this will be this and I can't come back here and it be all the same. It has seemed weird to me that life goes on in America and of course it does. I keep expecting life back in America to be the same but it won't be and so sometimes I get scared but in reality I shouldn't be scared. And plus I have already left there and have already moved on without even acknowledging it. So why would I have to worry? Why would I have to be scared when I have Jesus on my side and when I have already have done something much more scary. You see this is only the beginning of my life and I have so many adventures to live. So here is to one adventure ending and a new one starting. I'll miss you Laos!

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